Artificial Intelligence and Human Interaction Lecture Discussion

Vocabulary terms and core concepts discussed during the lecture regarding AGI, human-AI comparisons, and cognitive modeling.

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

The study of the way that we interface with technology and how it progresses.

Typewriter Artifact

A term referring to how the current keyboard layout was structured as a historical remnant of physical typewriter mechanics.

Dvorak layout

A keyboard layout which proponents argue is superior for productivity compared to the standard layout, but which has not been widely adopted.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Defined informally in the reading as a system that can do almost all cognitive tasks that a human can do.

General Intelligence (What it isn't)

According to the author, it doesn't need to be perfect, capable of everything, more intelligent than humans, or similar to human intelligence.

Level of Skillful Performance

Different ways of evaluating AI success, including the Turing level, expert level, and superhuman level.

Stochastic Parrot

A common argument or metaphor for Large Language Models suggestion they merely repeat information back with a degree of randomness rather than possessing true intelligence.

Agency

A term for intentionality, deliberateness, and the act of having goals and acting to satisfy them.

Autonomy

An aspect of minds different from intelligence that refers to a system acting to satisfy its own goals rather than those given by engineers.

World Model

An internal system or game engine that allows an entity to predict what would happen if circumstances differed and to answer counterfactual questions.

Autoregressive Architecture

A design where a model's current output is highly dependent upon its previous output, which serves as the primary form of memory or statefulness during a conversation.

Hallucination

When an AI fails at simple tasks it should know, such as miscounting the number of letters in a word like strawberry.

Homogenized data set

A training set that embeds perspectives and biases of a small proportion of the population, such as being limited to only 7 languages.

Moving Goalposts

The tendency in AI research to redefine what counts as intelligence once a computer successfully achieves a previously set milestone, such as playing chess or passing the Turing test.

Social Constructivist view of intelligence

A perspective circling the idea that intelligence is something created based on culture, language, and human experience rather than just logical reasoning.